"Let us … simply settle for this moderating moral imperative: that it is time that the world adopt a position that refuses to countenance religion as an acceptable justification for, excuse or extenuation of crimes against humanity."

— Wole Soyinka, a Nobel literature winner who has taught at Emory University in Atlanta, in Wole Soyinka: Religion Against Humanity Speech at United Nations

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